Merced, California · General provision

20.16.020.A Table 20.16-1

Uses

Extracted standards

5 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.

Design

  • Principal entry fronts public space

    The principal entry of the building should front a public space, such as a street, park, or plaza, and not a parking lot.

  • Maximum unarticulated/blank building wall length25 ft

    There should be no unarticulated/blank building walls exceeding twenty-five (25) feet in length facing a collector or higher order street.

  • All ground-floor building walls of nonresidential uses that face a collector or higher order street should provide transparent windows or doors with views into the building for a minimum of fifty (50) percent of the building width.

  • No surface parking between building and property line

    There should be no instances of surface parking located between a building and an exterior property line.

  • Upper story uses encouraged

    Mixed use, office, and residential uses are encouraged on the upper stories of commercial buildings within the C-V zoning district.

From the ordinance

Table 20.16-1 Permitted Land Uses in the Urban Village Zoning Districts
20.16.020.A Table 20.16-1